'''Richard Meux Benson''' (6 July 1824 – 14 January 1915)Armentrout, Don S. & Robert Boak Slocum (eds.) (2000) ''[http://library.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/benson-richard-meux An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church]'', New York: Church Publishing Incorporated, p. 44 was a priest in the Church of England and founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, the first religious order of monks in the Anglican Communion since the English Reformation|Reformation. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints (Anglican Church of Canada)|Calendar of Saints of the Anglican Church of Canada on 15 January and of the Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)|Episcopal Church (USA) on 16 January.